Post pics of your watches Part II

It’s only worth what’s someone’s willing to pay 😉

That’s it. Niche is even more niche in the Irish market. Have you tried tz ? A buyer bought my aqua Terra and shipped to Poland so it’s not a completely closed off market post brexit. For a watch that expensive a trip north of the border to post or even a cheap flight be cheaper than the import related fees…unkel will be along shortly to admonish my tax evasion suggestions

Omega has this funny way of building exceptional watches that lack some emotion...or lack a feeling. Hard to articulate what they are missing except to say they are lacking something. I think the "Brosnan" era bond seamasters somehow resonate more than the modern ones. A lot of us are of an age where the bond seamaster was the grail watch.

For me i always associate seamasters with lads in their 20s, that will one day chop it for a sub, so even though i have been quite taken with a few of them down the years i never bought one (now that im 40 :()

I think the constant evolvement of the aesthetic works against them, an old seamaster looks dated now in the way an old submariner doesnt.

I think it’s very much an income based thing to. Most people probably thing the seamaster is a sizeable chunk of their income to spend on a watch and for many it’s their grail watch. We need to be conscious of what others have said. Not everyone can afford or wants to spend more than 1k nevermind 3, 10 or 100k on watches

The seamaster is a very good quality watch and at €5500 ish retail price it’s got a luxury watch price tag to match.it’s certainly an aspirational watch and I’m sure a grail for a lot of people.

As has been said many times before ,watch forum users don’t make up the largest portion of watch buyers.Most of us here can get turned off a watch by something as minor as the text font or rotor noise or some other minor point that majority of people wouldn’t even notice so I suppose most of our complaints about a watch need to be taken with a pinch of salt .

That said mine is up for sale if anyone’s interested in trying one

Ah yeah Mick we all get that, but this is a watch forum. Dont think anyone would slag off a Seamaster as a entry level watch....but it is entry level into the obsessive hobby of luxury watch collecting. A lot of us started there, and I see a lot of people in the community in general started there. Once you taste the hobby at that level you want to progress (or a lot of us do, but there is also the contrary exception or person who runs out of interest at this point).

I dont think opinions should be neutered cause they might offend and really in this hobby where both a 30 euro and a 3million euro item are both classed as a watch, being offended or annoyed because people are discussing things you can not, or dont want to buy is for,(in the immortal words of Boris) great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies.

Astute observation I am going to steal that.

Some are at the bell end of the curve

Happy Birthday Wibbs. doing anything nice?

You should buy a watch to celebrate :)

The bond Bronson Seamaster was the first watch I remember seeing in an AD at an age when spending 1000 punts on a watch didnt seem like an unachievable goal. I though Brosnan was cool and he looked cool wearing a watch. When I got my first few pay checks I toddled off to Weirs and bought one and wore that watch for a decade. It was a quartz cause it was a bit cheaper, and I gave it to my dad who never had a good watch and he wears it to this day (he has it in for service at the moment). I think if you are in that 35-55 year bracket that watch certainly soaked into your subconscious, the marketing at the time was incredible.

These days the same watch might be a BB58, the new seamaster is too expensive, and too many variations to focus the imagination of the young lads nose pressed to weirs window.

After traveling back and forward from Japan a couple of times.... It Finally Arrived!

Posted in much greater detail over on the Bellmatics section [Link]

Basically, the" Business Bell" was a limited run of Bell-Matics with the Business Bell on the dial using the 4006-7010

However, back in 2015 a post featured a 4006-7000 with a Business Bell dial with a unique dial code 7030T vs the 7040T found on the 7010 models.

Know as "The forgotten Business Bell",I haven't seen another example to come up anywhere, Richard Askham has never even heard of one, nor has John Bentley.

Both mine and the only other one to come up are dated, May 1967

Fitted the bracelet from my January 1967 4006-7000 as it would of been the same one fitted originally

Very relieved to finally have it safe and sound. Another unique Bell to join the ever growing collection!

More Pictures [Link]

Thank You,

Keith.

TBH, if mental age matters? I should be down the back with my communion watch 😂

Irishplayer, wonderful watch and one I hope brings you immense joy! Great story to go with its travels too 😉

Happy birthday wibbs..I usually take my birthday off work if it’s a working day..sometimes falls on a bank holiday weekend.. was going to say we should have a birthday party 🥳

on another thought would a zoom watch meet be weird?

I see Hublot QC has improved

Thanks all for the replies regarding the Forgotten Business Bell. It has been an interesting time for me regarding this hobby. Loads of new arrivals, watch related trips!

I would be interested in a Watch GTG , whether it be on zoom or with some normality returning, an in person one. TZ-UK I believe have a similar zoom style GTG every Thursday, might be something we could set up on here.

Also, Happy Birthday Wibbs! Sorry If I'm late!

I fitted a Hirsch strap to the grand quartz 9943, so I'll be wearing this for a while to see what the body heat does to it's rate. We'll give it a month to see if it slows down from being at room temperature.

Book next year's holiday next time you have a good trading week 😎

So what you getting? Panerai?

Wearing the Affordable moonwatch today .the high frequency quartz is something a bit different in a sub €400 watch

Had a bit of a shite day, nothing drastic but a certain YT video made me put this on and a nice tipple has put a smile on my face.

You don’t need the torch when the Seiko lume lights up the road like that

You’re phrasing that wrong .You’re like me and in the 21 - 42 bracket .Sounds much better